• 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    They’re also super well known for ending imperialism, those dastardly empires on the Baltic Sea/in the Caucasus/in Central Asia were no match for the totally non-imperialist spread of russian culture and rule

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      Everyone in East Germany, North Korea, Hungary, the USSR, all those bastions of victory was saying “Thank God I’m here and I don’t have to go to someplace where I would be oppressed by imperialism, and instead I can be here, happy and free.” They actually had to put up walls and borders to make sure none of the Westerners could stream in and take advantage of all their communism.